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View Poll Results: What was the best RPG of 2007? | |
BioShock
|     | 8 | 5.84% | |
Eschalon: Book I
|    | 1 | 0.73% | |
Geneforge 4
|    | 3 | 2.19% | |
Hellgate: London
|    | 2 | 1.46% | |
Mass Effect
|    | 24 | 17.52% | |
Mask of the Betrayer
|    | 23 | 16.79% | |
Shivering Isles
| | 14 | 10.22% | |
The Witcher
| | 47 | 34.31% | |
TQ: Immortal Throne
| | 6 | 4.38% | |
Other
| | 9 | 6.57% |
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01-22-2008, 10:36 AM
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| | | Mass Effect all the way the graphics were realistic, the dialogue was nice (except for Female Commander Shepard she didn't sound good to me),and the Big points of the game were amazing.
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01-24-2008, 01:07 AM
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| | | voted for Shivering Isles,as the only one i have at the moment! and yes, oblivion may be dumbed down in peoples opinions, but hey, kept me entertained, and thats what counts, well for me any road
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02-09-2008, 07:02 AM
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| | | Cheers.. Simply The Witcher,coz they do a wonderful job in my opinion,
it works pretty well on AMD 2200+ with 1Mb RAM (that is a high-end config.?),
cool graphics and gameplay and I'm not a FPS+RPG games fan.
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02-09-2008, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Krumov  it works pretty well on AMD 2200+ with 1Mb RAM (that is a high-end config.?),
cool graphics and gameplay and I'm not a FPS+RPG games fan. | I tried that before and the game lagged a lot. I played on a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz with 1GB or RAM and a Geforce 6600. Can only play at settings in between low and medium. Even at those settings, it still lagged. 
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02-10-2008, 11:38 AM
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| | | Jade Empire:SE for sure. Great game! But huh, have not have a chance to play ME as it's not a PC game, and outruled couple of the other PC games because they are male only. |
02-10-2008, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Domi_Ash Jade Empire:SE for sure. Great game! But huh, have not have a chance to play ME as it's not a PC game, and outruled couple of the other PC games because they are male only. | Because they're male-only? Isn't that a bit of a, hmmm, rather inane reason to rule them out? I mean, it would be saying that I never read Maggie Furey, because her main character is a woman... |
02-11-2008, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by dragon wench Drunkside,
please do not vote for games you haven't played, your vote is being removed. | could you explain this please?
I see no reason at all why it is necessary to have played a game before one could vote for it..
ingame footage is usually enough to give a good impression of a game,
and well to me.. a thorough review tells me all I need to know. (concerning the quality of a game.)
furthermore, since when is bioshock an rpg?
and resemblance with system shock 2? hahahaahah you gotta be kidding me.
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02-11-2008, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Inanis ingame footage is usually enough to give a good impression of a game, and well to me.. a thorough review tells me all I need to know. (concerning the quality of a game.) | It gives you the reveiwer's opinion, but it doesn't give you an opinion to state as your own. You can say, "X felt this way about Y," but not, "I felt this way about Y." Because you haven't played Y.
Doesn't mean you can't follow X's advice. But going into a poll, and stating it as fact? Doesn't tell us what *you* think about the game.
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02-12-2008, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Inanis ingame footage is usually enough to give a good impression of a game,
and well to me.. a thorough review tells me all I need to know. (concerning the quality of a game.)
| Isn't it a bit shallow to judge a game mostly on its graphics, i.e. ingame footage? Many of us here are people who'd play something with kid's drawings as graphics, as long as it has good gameplay. It goes to show that you can only discern so much from a screenshot... |
02-12-2008, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Inanis ingame footage is usually enough to give a good impression of a game,
and well to me.. a thorough review tells me all I need to know. (concerning the quality of a game.) | Actually playing a game and looking at footages are 2 completely different things. A game can have the best graphics and the most beautifull screenshots in the world, but if the gameplay itself is terrible I wouldn't vote for it.  |
02-12-2008, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Inanis could you explain this please?
I see no reason at all why it is necessary to have played a game before one could vote for it..
ingame footage is usually enough to give a good impression of a game,
and well to me.. a thorough review tells me all I need to know. (concerning the quality of a game.) | It's really very simple, your vote has no validity if it is not a reflection of your personal experience. Good reviews and footage can certainly influence our deciding whether or not to buy a title, and we can be predisposed to thinking we'll enjoy said game, but that's it.
Would you judge somebody based solely on what others had told you about them, or would you wait until you had the chance to form your own impressions?
Or, as a concrete example:
If you were to go go by most reviews of Oblivion, you'd be left thinking it was the Rosetta Stone of gaming.... 
For many, the reality is rather different.
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02-12-2008, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by dragon wench Or, as a concrete example:
If you were to go go by most reviews of Oblivion, you'd be left thinking it was the Rosetta Stone of gaming....
For many, the reality is rather different. | How true.... 
As for my previous post about the Witcher, I finally played the demo...
but will have to upgrade my home computer before I can buy and play.
Just cannot seem to vote for Mass Effect...IMO, its just KOTOR redone,
the entire time I was playing, I had the feeling I had done this before...
Now don't get me wrong it was a very enjoyable game, and I will give it a replay or two...
it just didn't give me that "wow" factor.... 
And Bioshock ...loved the atmosphere...but I'm not too much of a first person shooter type of player.
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02-12-2008, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by fable It gives you the reveiwer's opinion, but it doesn't give you an opinion to state as your own. You can say, "X felt this way about Y," but not, "I felt this way about Y." Because you haven't played Y.
Doesn't mean you can't follow X's advice. But going into a poll, and stating it as fact? Doesn't tell us what *you* think about the game. | With thorough reviews I mean reviews that actually are thorough, not the average writings of some freshling gamer.
But you are in a way right of course. Quote: |
Originally Posted by GawainBS Isn't it a bit shallow to judge a game mostly on its graphics, i.e. ingame footage? Many of us here are people who'd play something with kid's drawings as graphics, as long as it has good gameplay. It goes to show that you can only discern so much from a screenshot... | I never said anything about graphics, I'll choose good rpg-elements to graphics anytime.
Anyways.. ingame footage usually tries to show people the strong points of a game.. with rpg-games that mostly comes down to rpg-elements, doesn't it?
When I saw Mass Effect ingame footage on gametrailers before it's release I already knew it had to be way better than oblivion. (nothing against oblivion, it just could've been better, more choices, an evil and or neutral storyline/ending etc.. and don't forget about the lame exploitable bribe-system) Quote: |
Originally Posted by dragon wench It's really very simple, your vote has no validity if it is not a reflection of your personal experience. Good reviews and footage can certainly influence our deciding whether or not to buy a title, and we can be predisposed to thinking we'll enjoy said game, but that's it.
Would you judge somebody based solely on what others had told you about them, or would you wait until you had the chance to form your own impressions?
Or, as a concrete example:
If you were to go go by most reviews of Oblivion, you'd be left thinking it was the Rosetta Stone of gaming....
For many, the reality is rather different. | It's not really reasonable to compare a game with a human being.
And my judging of people I do not know depends on the severity of the accusations.
I don't mind speaking to a guy that killed another man in a firefight.. I do mind speaking to some psycho that raped & killed eight children.
As far as oblivion is concerned, it wasn't the masterpiece that the media tried to make us believe it was. But is sure is a decent game.
Just like Bioshock is a good game for people that love shooting and stomping anything & everything till there's nothing left alive.
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02-13-2008, 01:49 AM
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| | | You're still missing the point: this is a poll asking about *your* opinion, which simply can't exist untill you have played a game.
The poll header should be read as "Which game granted you the most fun this year?"
Once again, I cite Oblivion and Bioshock as prime examples of overrated games (Not bad per se, but overrated), while some games are underrated. (I think of Iron Throne or The Witcher, for example.) |
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Originally Posted by dragon wench It's really very simple, your vote has no validity if it is not a reflection of your personal experience. | To add some counterweight, I think very few people that voted here have actually played all these games. People tend to choose favourites on first sight. It's why there are so many 'instant-classics' (ha, now I know that word will tick you off  ).
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